How do you know that the french wouldnt use it as a cover to making a weapon? And if they are making significant amounts then it will be more than france feeling the impact.
Neo
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How do you know that the french wouldnt use it as a cover to making a weapon? And if they are making significant amounts then it will be more than france feeling the impact.
Neo
Dear god, what? The french would go through the pretence of all this merely to make a not very good weapon which would kill french people? I mean, what? The mind boggles. For a start, the others on the comittee thingmy that decided where it was going to be would ave to be in cahoots to make sure it went to France. And they would then have to speak to the designers to change it so that it was no longer a powerstaiton but instead a weapon. Of which t wouldn't be a very good one anyway, as its still at the experimental stage, and would have to be very secure with shielding and so forth.
Now assuming that they had thought of all this, and bought off everyone involved to allow them to do it, if they were to set it off, it would explode or what have you in the middle of France. Killing french people, the majority of whom would have been involved in the project. Which would be pointless. Expecially considering they could just go get a few of their own, cheap, nukes, and launch those. At people who aren't french.
On a more relevant note, all this fusion malarky is certainly very interesting. It may well turn out to be much better if it all works thant current Nuclear power plants, but whther it will ever gain public acceptance is another matter.
As far as I know,there is no loss or gain in mass, but there is a loss and gain of atoms - for example a tritium (3^H) binds to a deuterium (2^H) which binds to form a helium atom, like on the sun, the byproduct is an incrediably charged neutron (left over, as 2 x 2^H would create a 4^He, so instead of using 2 deuteriums, using a tritium and a deuterium gives a total of 4 neutrons... so it will release a spare neutron) this is increadiably charged from the reaction and the the energy can be harnessed and stored.Quote:
Originally Posted by oralpain
The mass is exactly the same as it goes in BUT deuterium is lost and tritium is lost, and helium is formed. Its more of a fusion than a chemichal reaction, a bit like nuclear in a way, hence the excess energy from the binding is released
Or something
Neon - you're getting paronoid.Quote:
Originally Posted by neonplanet40
:crazy: = neonplanet40
The french have had nuclear weapons for almost 50 years...
A nuclear reaction is any reaction in when two nuclei or nuclear particles collide. Fission and fusion are both types of nuclear reactions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swafe
There is a change in mass in all neclear reactions.
In hydrogen to helium fusion about 0.7% of the mass is lost and converted to energy. You endup with less total matter than you put in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reaction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion
Might also want to look up E=mc² as well.
about the plant in sweden that makes Anti-Matter? If it did blow then we would be well f**ked lol. Think i read somewhere that one drop could power new york for a very long period of time.. But its highly unstable also. I suppose in a way its gd to know the world is developing :P
neo
Que the geeky Slartibartfast jokes, chortle...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kez
Presumably you meant CERN which can produce antimatter?
Any large particle accelerator can produce antimatter. CERN is one of the biggest and best for it though. Still, the total ammount of antimatter artifically produced in the history of mankind is a fraction of a gram. They do get better at making it all the time though. Price is supposedly down to somewhere in the ballpark of 25 billion dollars a gram, it used to be in the trillions of dollars per gram.
Antimatter itself is to hard to make and too hard to store to be used as a weapon or propellant in the near future, but using antimatter to get a fusion reaction going is quite possible and may soon have practical applications, like a cleaner, safer (for the troops sent in after the blast) hydrogen bomb, and spacecraft propulsion.
As an interesting aside on the CERN website there is a page detailing all the facts to counter act Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons".
Interersting read.
This isn't such a bad thing, infact I'm quite looking forward to living on primest beach front property on lake France...
Thats actually where i read about it lo. Hes a very gd auther. The Da VInci code was a great book. Hopefully the film wont destroy the book as always.Quote:
Originally Posted by RoGuE|SaBeR
At then end of the day if a weapon superior to everything else can be made out of these things it will be made, its things liek these that make a super power a super power. Nothin we can do or say to stop it.
Neo